Baltimore
Baltimore is a village in County Cork near the southwest tip of Ireland. The harbour is large, and sheltered by islands - several are inhabited and are also described on this page.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Dunaevam, Public domain.
- Type: Village with 347 residents
- Description: village in western County Cork, Ireland
- Also known as: “Baltimore, County Cork” and “Baltimore, IE”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sherkin Island and Dunasead Castle.
Sherkin Island
Photo: Jbuck78, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sherkin Island or Inisherkin is one of the islands of Roaringwater Bay in County Cork, a short ferry ride from Baltimore. Its Irish name Inis Arcáin means "Island of the Piglet", which probably refers to sea-pigs meaning porpoises.
Dunasead Castle
Castle
Photo: Andrew Wood, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dunasead Castle, sometimes known as Baltimore Castle, is a 17th-century fortified house situated in the town of Baltimore in County Cork, Ireland. The tower house is built on the site of an earlier Norman-era structure, which itself replaced an earlier Bronze Age ringfort.
Baltimore Lifeboat Station
Building
Photo: Charles W Glynn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Baltimore Lifeboat Station is located at Bull Point, near Baltimore, a town approximately 85 km south west of Cork, on the south-west tip of County Cork, on the south coast of Ireland.
Baltimore
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: County Cork, Munster, Southwest Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.4833° or 51° 29′ northLongitude
-9.3732° or 9° 22′ 24″ westPopulation
347Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)United Nations Location Code
IE BTMOpen location code
9C3GFJMG+8POpenStreetMap ID
node 52250916OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Baltimore” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Baltimore (Irlanda)”
- Basque: “Baltimore”
- Breton: “Dún na Séad”
- Cebuano: “Baltimore”
- Dutch: “Baltimore”
- Esperanto: “Baltimore”
- French: “Baltimore”
- German: “Baltimore”
- Irish: “Dún na Séad”
- Japanese: “ボルチモア”
- Japanese: “ボルティモア (アイルランド)”
- Japanese: “ボルティモア”
- Latin: “Balatimora”
- Russian: “Балтимор (графство Корк)”
- Russian: “Балтимор (Корк)”
- Russian: “Болтимор”
- Spanish: “Baltimore”
- Swedish: “Baile an Tighe Mór”
- Swedish: “Baltimore, Irland”
- Swedish: “Baltimore”
- Swedish: “Dún na Séad”
- Ukrainian: “Балтимор (Ірландія)”
- Ukrainian: “Балтимор”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Baltimore”. Photo: georama, CC BY 3.0.